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19/08/2025

Here's something that's been shifting my whole relationship with uncertainty:

What if the future isn't a destination but a dance partner?

I used to think about the future as this fixed thing that I was either moving toward or away from. Success or failure. Hope or despair. The life I want or the one I'm afraid of.

But what if it's actually something I'm in constant conversation with? Something I'm co-creating through how I show up to this exact moment?

This changes everything about how I navigate not knowing what comes next.
Instead of trying to control what's coming, I get to practice dancing with what's emerging. Instead of polarizing into hope or despair about tomorrow, I can stay present to the creative tension of uncertainty.

Your relationship with the future is actually a relationship with your own creative power. How you practice love in the face of difference today creates the template for how difference will be met tomorrow. How you navigate conflict now shapes what's possible for the next generation.

The polarized times we're living in aren't a detour from evolution. They ARE evolution.

The friction we're experiencing collectively isn't a sign something's wrong, it's a sign something new is trying to be born.

And you, with your willingness to dance with polarity rather than flee from it, to bring devotion to conflict rather than just react, to find harmony in dissonance... you're part of what's midwifing the future into being.

So I'm wondering: How do you want to dance with the unknown? What future are you creating through how you show up today?

The invitation is still here: Will you dance the wild edges?

The world is waiting for your answer. Not in words, but in how you choose to live.

What are your thoughts? I'd love to hear how this lands for you.

18/08/2025

Picking back up from where I left off last week…

I've been thinking about our relationship with the earth lately, and how it might be the most complex polarity dance of all.

Because we are of the earth and separate from it. Completely dependent on it and capable of destroying it.

We're animals who have somehow forgotten we're animals, indigenous beings living in some weird exile from our own indigenous nature.

Does this feel as complicated to you as it does to me?

I was walking in the woods last week, feeling this profound sense of belonging, this cellular recognition of being part of something vast and alive. And then I got back to my car, turned on the air conditioning, and immediately felt the weight of how disconnected my daily life is from the natural rhythms that my body still remembers.

It's like being in love with someone while also being estranged from them. Feeling both deep reverence and profound grief. Wonder and guilt. Connection and separation.

I don't think this is a polarity to be resolved through positive thinking or spiritual bypassing. I think it's a tension to be lived, to be felt fully in our bodies.

The earth doesn't need us to be perfect. It needs us to be present. It needs us to feel our interconnection not just intellectually but viscerally. In our bones & In our breath.

I'm curious: How do you experience this relationship?

Where do you feel most connected to the natural world?

Where do you feel most estranged from it?

What would it look like to let both your love for the earth and your grief about our impact be present at the same time?

Our willingness to feel the full complexity of this relationship, without trying to fix it or escape it, might be part of what the earth actually needs from us.

14/08/2025

Okay, this might sound weird, but I think your workplace might be one of your richest environments for spiritual growth.

Stay with me here.

Think about it: you're thrown together with people you didn't choose, you have to create something together, and the stakes are real but not life-or-death. It's like this perfect petri dish for exploring how to navigate difference, manage conflict, and collaborate across completely different approaches to... well, everything.

That colleague who tackles problems in a way that makes absolutely no sense to you? They're not your obstacle, they're your teacher. The boss whose leadership style triggers something deep in you? They're offering you information about your relationship with authority.

I was in a meeting last month where all of us had different approach to a project. One wanted to plan everything out in detail, the other wanted to dive in and iterate as they went and I was a blend of the two. Instead of seeing this as a problem to solve, we got curious about what each approach offered.

The planner helped us avoid costly mistakes. The iterative person helped us stay responsive to what was actually emerging and I helped bridge the two. Together, we created something none of us could have accomplished alone.

But here's what made it work: we had to stay devoted to the shared mission rather than being right about our individual approaches.

I'm wondering: What would shift in your work relationships if you saw the people who approach things differently not as problems to manage but as teachers to learn from?

Where might you be protecting your way of doing things instead of getting curious about what other approaches might offer?

Because I have this theory that learning to collaborate beautifully at work is practice for collaborating beautifully everywhere else.

13/08/2025

There's something unique about friendship that I've been thinking about lately.

Something about the way it lets us practice loving across difference without all the intensity of romantic attachment or the obligation of blood relation.

You know what I mean? There's this spaciousness in chosen relationships where you get to discover that love doesn't actually require sameness.

I have this friend who sees politics completely differently than I do. For a while, it created this weird tension where we'd avoid certain topics or I'd find myself getting triggered by their posts on social media.
But then something shifted. Instead of trying to convince them to see things my way, I got curious about how their mind works.
What experiences shaped their worldview?
What are they afraid of that I'm not seeing?
What do they value that we might actually share?

It didn't make me agree with their positions, but it allowed me deeper insight and understanding of them as a whole person rather than just their opinions. And somehow that created more intimacy, not less.

I think friendships are like these beautiful laboratories for learning how to be with difference. Your friend who processes emotions totally differently than you do is expanding your capacity for love.

The chosen family member whose life choices mystify you is teaching you that connection doesn't require comprehension.

In a world that's so polarized, our friendships become training grounds for loving across difference. They teach us that community doesn't need conformity.

I'm curious: Is there a friend or chosen family member whose differences challenge you in some way? What might be possible if you got curious about those differences instead of trying to change them or ignore them?

What have your friendships taught you about holding space for people who see the world differently than you do?

How can we treat our closest relationships, especially our chosen partnerships from the base and fundamental friendship lens?

12/08/2025

Here's something that fascinates me about attachment patterns in love: we're often drawn to partners whose attachment style complements ours, yet we spend years trying to reshape them into our own attachment blueprint.

Sound familiar?

Your anxiously attached heart is magnetized to their avoidant calm until you call it emotional unavailability. Their distant nature was soothed by your secure responsiveness until they label it clingy. The very attachment dance that created your bond becomes your battleground.
Then we assume the relationship is broken.

But what if this tension is actually secure attachment forming?
What if you didn't choose each other despite your attachment differences but because of them?

I've navigated relationships where my anxious activation met their deactivating strategies. Where my anxious system craves immediate reassurance and processing, their avoidant system needs space to regulate before connecting. Where I need physical closeness for co-regulation, they need distance to feel safe enough to be vulnerable.

For years (unconsciously), I tried molding them into anxious attachment wanting immediate availability and emotional accessibility. They sometimes abandoned their boundaries to meet my activation while I demanded more presence than their system could offer. This was painful for the both of us.

We were both trying to eliminate the attachment tension that actually creates growth and earned security.

Now I wonder: What if my partner isn't meant to match my attachment style but to help me develop security? What if our attachment friction is inviting us toward deeper intimacy?

This isn't about tolerating attachment injuries or losing yourself. It's about understanding what your activation patterns reveal, what your partner's "difficult" attachment behaviors might be developing in you.

Where do you try to remake your partner's attachment style?

What becomes possible when you get curious about your attachment dance instead of fighting it?

11/08/2025

I've been thinking about and really feeling all of the different parts of me that seem to be at war with each other, especially this last week with COVID in my veins.

The part that wants to be seen and the part that wants to hide. My inner perfectionist and my wild creative mess. The aspect of me that craves routine and the one that needs uncontained fluidity.

For so long, I thought I needed to pick a side in these internal conflicts. Be consistent. Have a clear personality. Choose an identity and stick with it.

But what if that's not how humans actually work?

What if my contradictions aren't problems to solve but creative tensions to dance with?

The part of me that's afraid and the part that's brave aren't opposites fighting for control. They're both trying to keep me alive and growing. My grief and my joy aren't canceling each other out, they're creating the full spectrum of my aliveness.

Perhaps people who never feel afraid aren't brave, they may just be disconnected. The ones who are always positive aren't necessarily enlightened, they may just be afraid to show the full spectrum of their experience and end up performing.

And here's what's wild: how I relate to my own contradictions is probably how I relate to contradictions everywhere else. In my relationships, in my community, in the world.

So I'm getting curious about this internal landscape.

What parts of yourself have you been trying to exile or fix?
What if those aspects actually have gifts for you?

What would it feel like to let your different parts have conversations with each other instead of wars?

I have a hunch ;) that learning to love our own complexity is practice for loving complexity everywhere.

What do you think? What parts of yourself are you still trying to choose between?

10/08/2025

This might sound weird to some of you, but I've been wondering if healthy conflict is actually one of the purest expressions of love.

Hear me out.

Think about the last time you avoided a difficult conversation because you didn't want to "rock the boat." Or when you smiled and nodded while something inside you was screaming.

What were you actually protecting?

I used to think I was being loving when I kept the peace. But I now know that I was just playing it safe, keeping the peace to be comfortable.

Time and time again in my deepest & closest relationships I get to be to be called out (or I like to say called forward) into taking accountability for something I'd been doing that was hurting our relationships. In those moments, it stings, burns, crushes and even collapses me. And, it is such a gift!! I have come to realize that they love me enough to risk my displeasure and comfort for the sake of truth. They love our relationship enough to bring their whole self, even the part that was frustrated, rageful, displeased, disgusted… with me.

That's brave love. That's devotional love.

I see this in my relationship with myself too. When I consistently override what my body is telling me to keep others comfortable, I'm not being loving. I'm being compliant.

When I silence my authentic responses to maintain an image, I'm choosing comfort over connection.

And in my work some of the most beautiful creative breakthroughs have come from healthy conflict. From someone being willing to say "I don't think this is working" or "I see it completely differently."

So I'm curious: What would change if you saw healthy conflict as an act of love rather than a threat to it?

What difficult conversation have you been avoiding because you're confusing love with comfort?

Because here's what I'm realizing: Indifference never fights. Indifference doesn't care enough to engage. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy.

Maybe our willingness to show up to difficult conversations is actually how we show up for love?

09/08/2025

Can I share something that's been blowing my mind lately?

I used to think harmony meant everything flowing smoothly, everyone agreeing, no waves, no conflict. Like a perfectly still lake.

But then I started really listening to music. And you know what creates the most beautiful, moving pieces? It's not the absence of dissonance. It's how the dissonance resolves. The tension creates the possibility for release. The dark notes make the light ones luminous.

My life started making so much more sense.
That push and pull I feel between wanting security and craving adventure? That's not a bug, that's a feature. The way I need both deep intimacy and fierce independence? That's not confusion, that's complexity.

I was on a hike last weekend, thinking about this, and I realized: nature is never trying to eliminate tension. Storms and sunshine. Seasons of growth and seasons of rest. Predator and prey. It's all part of the same gorgeous, terrible, life-giving dance.

So I'm getting curious about this in relationships too.

What if harmony doesn't mean never disagreeing?
What if it means learning to disagree beautifully?
What if our differences are actually what make the song richer?

I'm wondering... where in your life have you been trying to eliminate dissonance instead of dance with it? What might be possible if you stopped seeing tension as the problem?

Because here's what I know more and more each day for me: the places where we feel the most tension might actually be where the most aliveness wants to emerge.

What do you think? Does this resonate or does it feel completely off to you?

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